My name is Christy Kost, and I was wondering if there is a representative of your program that I could come and talk to. I am currently researching a project about tobacco control in Weld County for my Anthropology of Health and Healing class, and would greatly appreciate a scheduled meeting time where I could come in and discuss your programs, effectiveness, and success in Weld County.

Thank you so much,

Christy Kost

Keep raising the price of smoking.. lol us smokers are not going to quit because its expensive.. heh because its FALSELY expensive. Tobacco isnt rare, its not valuable.. you idiots set the price high. Its easy to sneak untaxed tobacco around, people sell them in NYC all the time.

All you are doing is letting cigarette smugglers get rich (and yes, I would buy from them) and eventually creating criminals.

I don’t care if they go to 1000 bucks a pack. I BUY them and will smoke them until I WANT TO QUIT, not when you control freaks TELL me to quit.

Fact is, tobacco-related disease still accounts for more preventable death, disability and disease than all other causes. Diet-related and alcohol-related are certainly high on there and a lot can and should be done to help lower the numbers. In fact, in response to the obesity epidemic, many people are looking to the successes in tobacco control.

It is not about prohibition, but rather, regulating a product that has absolutely no positives in it. At least food and alcohol can be taken in moderation. That is not the case with tobacco. By definition, if you are using tobacco, it is abuse. What’s more, it’s a product that has been manipulated by the industry to make people even more hooked than they would be otherwise. Or else, why wouldn’t people grow it in their backyards (it’s free, legal, not taxed…)? There will always be a few people who will continue to use tobacco, but we are trying to help those that don’t want to and prevent kids from starting in the first place. This scourge on society has only been around for about a century…it is not a necessary component. We have dropped the number of smokers in half, and therefore the associated diseases and early deaths, in just 40 years or so and we hope it only gets better.

I wish you well and hope that you are not one of the many who succumb to tobacco-related diseases such as stroke, heart disease, cancer of all sorts, embolism, asthma, chronic pnemonia and others. I especially hope you aren’t harming those around you with secondhand smoke.
Take care.

Your secondary point about “constitutional rights to smoke” is completely invalid. Nowhere in the constitution does it say you have a right to smoke. This has been upheld in court
as well.

However, your point that people should be able to have the choice is true. As a non-smoker you probably don’t understand how truly addicted most smokers/tobacco users are and that about 85% of them wish they DIDN’T smoke! So much for choice when an industry has done all it could to hook them. Addiction is the antithesis of choice.

A note on this article: As price increases, consumption decreases as people try for sometimes the 8th, 9th, time to quit. High price also keeps kids from starting in the first place. 90% of tobacco users started before age 18. I don’t know about you, but I don’t think children really know how to make choices that will shorten and worsen their lives for many years to come. The average age of this “choice”? About 13!

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